Golatt is a new Go framework helping the creation of websites! It is an integration of Go templating in gorilla/mux.
It is lightweight and heavily customizable.
Install the framework with
go get -u github.com/anhgelus/golatt@v0.2.0Create a new directory called templates and embed it with go:embed, e.g.
//go:embed templates
var templates embed.FSThis directory will contain all your Go templates.
Create a new Golatt instance with golatt.New(fs.FS), e.g.
g := golatt.New(templates)Then you can use this instance to handle http queries, e.g.
g.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Write([]byte("Yeah!"))
})And you can start the server with g.StartServer(string), e.g.
g.StartServer(":8000")Full example file:
package main
import (
"embed"
"github.com/anhgelus/golatt"
)
//go:embed templates
var templates embed.FS
func main() {
g := golatt.New(templates)
g.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Write([]byte("Yeah!"))
})
g.StartServer(":8000")
}Golatt is designed to add Go templates in gorilla/mux.
To use it, you must name the folder containing all your templates templates and place it at the root of your project.
You also have to create the directory templates/page.
You can modify these names with a config, take a look at the next section to learn how to do it.
Then, you have to create two folders:
publicwhich is the folder containing static files (image, font...)distwhich is the folder containing compiled stuff not in Go (css, javascript...) These names can also be modified with a config.
Your project directory must look like this:
📁 dist/
| ...
📁 templates/
| 📁 page/
| ...
| ...
📁 public/
| ...
🗎 .gitignore
🗎 main.go
🗎 go.mod
🗎 go.sum
Golatt supports out-of-the-box opengraph.
To use it, you have to set some global SEO information after creating your Golatt instance.
To do it, just create a new golatt.SeoData instance.
You can now fill in all required information, i.e. domain, image and description.
Image must be a relative path inside your public directory (e.g., if your image is public/foo/bar.webp, the path
must be foo/bar.webp).
You must put this inside Golatt.DefaultSeoData.
g.DefaultSeoData = &golatt.SeoData{
Domain: "example.org", // as required by opengraph specification
Image: "foo/bar.webp",
Description: "An amazing example website!",
}Then, you have to create your own templates. These templates will be parsed at every request. It can be components, html templates or what else needed to be loaded at each request.
Let's create a html template.
In the new file templates/base/base.gohtml, you can fill it with your html template, e.g.
{{define "base"}}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" prefix="og: https://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>{{ .Title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
{{template "body" .}}
</body>
</html>
{{end}}The template "body" will be replaced by your page.
.Title refers to the title of the page.
In this example, this initial section is base: our templates will be loaded with this entry.
You can change this by setting Golatt.InitialSection to any other value.
Finally, we have to register these templates in Golatt.
You must simply add the relative path of each template into the slice Golatt.Templates.
You must NOT register your page body (the template defining the section body).
g.Templates = append(g.Templates, "templates/base/*.gohtml")If you changed the name of the folder, you have to change the relative path too!
Golatt splits files in two categories:
staticassets
Static files are not compiled files by you like images, fonts or whatever.
These are usually placed in the folder public and are available with the prefix /static/.
You can generate the URL of the file public/foo/bar.jpg with getStaticPath foo/bar.jpg inside your templates.
Assets files are compiled files by you like css (from scss, less), javascript or whatever.
These are usually placed in the folder dist and are available with the prefix /assets/.
You can generate the URL of the file assets/foo/bar.js with getAssetPath foo/bar.jpg inside your templates.
If you want to get a path inside your program, you can use golatt.GetStaticPath and golatt.GetAssetPath.
You can handle simple template very easily with Golatt.HandleSimpleTemplate(name string, title string).
nameis the name the template desired containing the body section, e.g.foo/barfortemplates/page/foo/bar.gohtml. These templates must be put intemplates/pageand have the extension.gohtml! (Can be modified.)titleis the title of your page.
You can handle a simple request with this, e.g.
g.HandleSimpleTemplate("hello", "Hello")"/"+name.
Here it's /hello which is correct, but if you call this with "index" to handle /, the URL will not be working!
Advanced template is like the simple one but with more options.
To use it, you must create a new instance of golatt.Template.
Golattis the current instance of Golatt.NameandTitleare the same parameters ofGolatt.HandleSimpleTemplate.Imageis the image to use for opengraph (see the definition of DefaultSeoData for more information).Descriptionis the description of the page.Datais any kind of data that you want to pass to your template. This is accessible via.Datainside the template.URLis the URL of the page. If not set, it will be generated automatically like in simple template.
You can also call Golatt.NewTemplate to create a new template.
After, you can call Template.Handle() to handle an HTTP request.
t := golatt.Template{
Golatt: g,
Name: "index",
Title: "Home",
Image: "index.webp",
Description: "Home of my website!",
URL: "/",
}
t.Handle()
// or
g.NewTemplate("index", "/", "Home", "index.webp", "Home of my website!", nil).Handle()If you need more customization, you can use Golatt.Render(w http.ResponseWriter, name string, data *TemplateData).
wis thehttp.ResponseWriterto write the responsenameis the name of the template (like the previous name given)dataare the data to pass to the template, but these are more complicated than the data given ingolatt.Template.
For example:
g.HandleFunc("/foo", g.Render(w, "foo/index", &golatt.TemplateData{
Title: "Foo",
SEO: &golatt.SeoData{
URL: "/foo",
Description: "Foo page!",
Image: "foo.jpg",
},
Data: nil,
}))You can handle errors 404 by setting Golatt.NotFoundHandler, e.g.
t := golatt.Template{
Golatt: g,
Name: "not_found",
Title: "Home",
Image: "",
Description: "Error 404",
URL: "",
}
g.NotFoundHandler = t.Handle()You can change default static and assets directories by modifying AssetsDirectory and StaticDirectory of your Golatt
instance.
g.AssetsDirectory = "assets" // default: "dist"
g.StaticDirectory = "static" // default: "public"You can also format each page's title by setting Golatt.FormatTitle.
It takes a string representing the page's title, and it returns the new title.
g.FormatTitle = func(t string) string {
return t + " - Example Website"
} // default: no modification of the titleIt is also possible to edit the directory containing all your pages' template by modifying Golatt.PageDirectory.
// new location is directory/foo/bar (where directory is the default directory in FS, i.e. templates by default)
g.PageDirectory = "foo/bar" // default: "page"You can change the default directory of the filesystem by modifying Golatt.FsDirectory.
This value must be the same as the path of the embed directories.
package main
import (
"embed"
"github.com/anhgelus/golatt"
)
//go:embed foo/bar
var templates embed.FS
func main() {
g := golatt.New(templates)
// sets the default directory to the path of the go:embed FS
g.FsDirectory = "foo/bar" // default: "templates"
}You can also use another extension for the templates file.
Modify Golatt.TemplateExtension to change it.
// all your template files must have this extension
g.TemplateExtension = "html" // default: "gohtml"- Go 1.23
- gorilla/mux